GANGS MOBILISE
FARMHOUSE ARSENAL FOR UNDERWORLD WAR FIGHT FOR LIQUOR CONTROL CHICAGO, Saturday. Two squads of Chicago detectives early today raided a country farmhouse near Melrose Park, which the police alleged was a factory for turning out bonibs in wholesale quantities. Eleven men, the majority members of the Genna gang, were arrested. Two powerful dynamite bombs, wrapped and apparently ready for delivery, were found in a kitchen cupboard, and the house was an arsenal in which four shotguns and many revolvers were stacked. The raid on the v 'bomb farm” was the first step in the police counteroffensive to thwart, an expected general war among the gangs for control of the lucrative traffic In beer and other illicit alcoholic liquor. At Hoboken, New Jersey, a gang of illicit beer dealers, within sight of the City Hall, swept a street corner with a fusillade from machine-guns and sawed-ofi: shotguns from a motor-car, which ran through the streets, seriously injuring three children, and then escaped. The police captured one of the gang, who blew out his brains with a rifle.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 9
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178GANGS MOBILISE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 9
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